Alex Timbers (born August 7, 1978) is an American writer and director best known for his work on stage and television.

On television, he co-created the Amazon Prime Video series Mozart in the Jungle which won the 2016 Golden Globe Award.

[4] Between 2003 and 2015, Timbers served as the Artistic Director of the award-winning, experimental theater company Les Freres Corbusier.

[5] Les Freres productions included Boozy: The Life, Death, and Subsequent Vilification of Le Corbusier and, More Importantly, Robert Moses, Dance Dance Revolution, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Hell House, Heddatron, and Hoover Comes Alive!.

[6] For Hell House, Timbers was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Theatrical Experience.

In 2003, Timbers conceived and directed the Les Freres show A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, for which he and writer Kyle Jarrow won an Obie Award.

[10] His production of Dixie's Tupperware Party was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance in 2008.

[15] In Fall 2010, Timbers directed The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway, which was subsequently filmed for HBO.

In March 2011, Timbers co-directed with Roger Rees Peter and the Starcatcher for Disney at New York Theatre Workshop.

[16] The show opened to a positive review from Ben Brantley in The New York Times, and Timbers won the 2011 Obie Award for Direction.

[23] In 2013 and again in 2014, Timbers directed Here Lies Love Off-Broadway at the Public Theater in New York City, an immersive club musical about Imelda Marcos featuring the music of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, for which he won the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Director.

Timbers, Byrne, and Fatboy Slim won the London Evening Standard Beyond Theatre Award "for pushing the boundaries of musicals.

[32] In September 2019, Timbers served as Production Consultant on David Byrne's American Utopia at the Emerson Colonial Theater in Boston.

[35] In Summer 2021, Beetlejuice made its international debut in South Korea at the Sejong Arts Center, staged and designed by the original Broadway creative team, in July 2021.

[44] In November 2022, Timbers directed the first national tour of Beetlejuice, which premiered at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theater.

[48] His debut picture book, Broadway Bird, was published by Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan, on May 24, 2022.

[49] Timbers directed and executive produced the television specials John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City (2018), Ben Platt Live from Radio City Music Hall (2020), and John Mulaney: Baby J (2023), all for Netflix.

Sardi's Restaurant honored Timbers by unveiling a portrait of him for their famed wall of caricatures on July 20, 2022.